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You can’t control when your life is going to take a tragic turn. Does God care and will He show up when it does?
“FINDING YOUR GLOW” is for people who are stuck in the ravages of life’s hardest blows. People who need an intimate God who cares. A loving, powerful God who can and will supply the power to overcome!
Sometimes you hit a crisis of faith - not because you’ve done something wrong or hit a rough patch in your spiritual walk. Sometimes it needs fresh victories. This is a word of RESURRECTION for those who’ve felt flattened when their “faith” has failed.
When all those people whipped out their phones, we were there. We could not look away. Not again. Not this time. And if I’m honest, that’s what really surprised and terrified me - the global outcry and what came after.
The veils were ripped away and, suddenly, the shadows of in-betweenness were no more. I, personally, could no longer live and hide in those shadows.
And I hadn’t even known I was doing that.
He said, “You know, Shannon, depression is a spirit. It’s a seductive spirit. Because, while it’s tearing you apart, it’s also feeding you chemicals that feel good. Good enough to make you keep it around. Good enough to not cast it out… You can be free.”
“Lean in,” I heard. It was a simple, quiet statement. I knew what it meant instantly and it scared me. It meant:
\ Stretching a little farther in embracing (even the idea of) joy and hope for the future.
\ Releasing more fear that the bottom might drop out. Again.
\ Trusting that the worst is behind and the best is yet unfolding.
Lean in. Drink deep…
Our room faced the backyard and gave a wide-windowed view of a pomegranate tree they’d had for decades - bare, stripped-down limbs devoid of any fruit, flower, or leaf. It was the end of October, smack dab in the middle of fall, and the barrenness of that tree would go on to mock my own every single morning for months…
From the very beginning of things going sideways, though, I had the most delicious peace square in the center of my being. Now, my mind...that’s been another story lol! But, you know, I learned something long ago that has LITERALLY been my light in dark times: FOLLOW THE PEACE! GOD IS AAAAALLLWAYS IN THE PEACE…
“OH MY GOD...!!” I gasped before I could catch myself. And then whoooosh! Every thought I had went right out the window. In that instant - in that eternal and pregnant moment - I was reminded of the only thing that matters…
One of the hardest things in the world is learning and then confronting who you are. Who you really are when everything that’s made you “you” isn’t around anymore. But now we’re all doing it. We’re all finding out who we REALLY are. Together. Right now. And it’s happening fast.
Resting is about more than jumping on a plane and getting away from it all or having a whole five minutes, hour, or day to oneself. You can be in either of those scenarios and many others and still not run into it. Why??
GUILT
Good ol’ fashioned guilt.
For me, a recent final epiphany sparked a new journey of change and starting over (again!) and was marked by an open vision, a question, and a decision. A decision that has ignited flames of transformation within my soul. A decision, indeed an opportunity of a lifetime, to shed the old and step into the new.
Let me tell you the story…